Intel and Google Cloud to Develop Anthos Reference Design to Simplify
Deployment Across On-Premise Data Centers and the Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 9, 2019--
GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT — Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Google Cloud (NASDAQ: GOOG,
GOOGL) today announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping
enterprise customers seamlessly deploy applications across on-premise
and cloud environments. The two companies will collaborate on Anthos, a
new reference design based on the 2nd-Generation
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and an optimized Kubernetes software
stack that will deliver increased workload portability to customers who
want to take advantage of hybrid cloud environments. Intel will publish
the production design as an Intel
Select Solution, as well as a developer platform.

Navin Shenoy, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, displays a wafer containing Intel Xeon processors during a keynote on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. In San Francisco on April 2, Intel Corporation introduces a portfolio of data-centric tools to help its customers extract more value from their data. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)

While organizations are embracing multi-cloud solutions to fuel their
businesses, many companies remain challenged to find the right hybrid
cloud solutions that enable seamless workload migration across clouds.
The new Anthos reference design will address this challenge by
delivering a stack optimized for workload portability, enabling
deployment of applications across on-premise data centers and public
cloud provider services.

“Google and Intel enjoy a long-standing partnership focused on
delivering infrastructure innovation to customers,” said Urs Hölzle,
senior vice president of Technical Infrastructure at Google Cloud. “Data
center environments today are complex, and hardware and software
infrastructure is not ‘one size fits all.’ Our ability to collaborate
with Intel and take advantage of their technology and product innovation
to deliver Anthos solutions ensures that our customers can run their
applications in the way that best suits them.”

“Our collaboration with Google in delivering the infrastructure and
software optimizations required to advance their hybrid and multi-cloud
solution is a natural fit with Intel’s vision for data-centric
computing,” said Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general
manager of the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation. “We’re delivering
an Intel technology foundation for customers to take advantage of their
data, and that requires delivery of architectures that can span across
various operating environments. This collaboration will give customers a
choice of optimized solutions that can be utilized both in the on-prem
as well as cloud environments.”

The new reference design will be delivered by mid-year 2019 with
expected solution delivery from OEMs and solutions integrators in market
later this year.

About Intel

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the data-centric future with computing and communications technology
that is the foundation of the world’s innovations. The company’s
engineering expertise is helping address the world’s greatest challenges
as well as helping secure, power and connect billions of devices and the
infrastructure of the smart, connected world – from the cloud to the
network to the edge and everything in between. Find more information
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About Google Cloud

Google Cloud (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) is widely recognized as a global
leader in delivering a secure, open and intelligent enterprise cloud
platform. Our technology is built on Google’s private network and is the
product of nearly 20 years of innovation in security, network
architecture, collaboration, artificial intelligence and open source
software. We offer a simply engineered set of tools and unparalleled
technology across Google Cloud Platform and G Suite that help bring
people, insights and ideas together. Customers across more than 150
countries trust Google Cloud to modernize their computing environment
for today’s digital world.

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